Mark 5:13 Meaning At Once Jesus Gave Them Permission

When love is given leave to look, the countless fears that seemed to be a self are shown to have no home in the mind at all. They rush instead into what is already mindless and rush it toward its own undoing, for a thought of separation, once seen clearly, cannot be housed in willingness and can only run to the nothingness it always was.

So a mind watches its whole army of terrors drown, and finds it has lost nothing real. What appeared as a legion of dangers was one error wearing many faces, and when the one who looked at last chose to look with love, the many simply ceased, because a lie has no substance to survive the light.

Unclean spirits: the swarm of fearful thoughts the mind mistook for its own identity Swine: the mindless drives that carry a fear once the mind refuses to keep it Herd: the multitude of terrors that seemed like an army yet were a single error many times over Sea: the formless depth into which an illusion dissolves when it is finally seen as nothing

The higher consciousness clears a divided mind of its unclean drives and lets them spend themselves in the appetite they belong to. The unclean spirits are the scattered impure impulses that had fragmented the man, and the swine are the lower animal appetites of the body, which is why the driven-out forces rush naturally into them. The herd hurling itself down the steep slope into the sea is those appetites, once loosed from restraint, plunging headlong into the churning emotions and drowning there, choked by the very depth they raced toward. The self is left cleared and whole because the impure powers, given the animal nature to enter, destroyed themselves in the flood of feeling rather than the man.

The unclean spirits: the scattered impure impulses that fragment a person and divide the mind against itself. The swine: the lower animal appetites of the body, the herd of gross cravings. The sea: the deep churning of the emotions into which loosed appetites plunge and drown.